Farm on Wheels (+ Video)

Scott Lachut

Courtesy of PSFK : We’ve been seeing a trend among eateries recently that brings haute cuisine to the streets, combining the mobility of social technologies like Twitter with the movement offered by four wheels, but we’ve yet to find the concept being applied to farming, until now.

Filmmaker Ian Cheney - one half of the Brooklyn Production company Wicked Delicate that shot “King Corn ,” a documentary on the industrial farming system - has transformed the bed of his old, gray Dodge Ram pickup into a fully functioning farm.

To convert the back, Cheney adapted elements of green roofing technology - adding drainage, a water-absorbent bottom layer and lightweight soil - enabling him to plant a crop of heirloom vegetables and still be able to drive, giving an entirely new meaning to the idea of food miles.

In an effort to track the growing process, Cheney has installed a solar-powered timelapse camera onto the truck’s roof that captures real time footage of the progress that will later be edited into a short film.

According to the Wicked Delicate website, a $20 subscription into the small-scale Truck Farm CSA gets you a copy of the finished DVD, an invite to the Summer Picnic and a completely unknown amount of local produce. You can also find the Truck Farm on Twitter .